What official DHS or ICE reports include race and ethnicity breakdowns of personnel, and how can they be accessed?
Executive summary
DHS publishes department-wide workforce demographic reporting that includes race and ethnicity breakdowns—most notably through its Inclusive Diversity/CHCO reports and the EEO Management Section’s mandated EEO products [1] [2]. ICE’s public-facing statistics pages emphasize operational data (arrests, removals, uses of force) while ICE’s own annual-report landing pages exist, but the reviewed ICE pages do not clearly surface agency-level personnel race/ethnicity tables independent of DHS-wide reporting [3] [4].
1. DHS Inclusive Diversity / CHCO reports: where race and ethnicity data appear
The DHS Inclusive Diversity annual reports produced by the Chief Human Capital Officer compile ethnic, racial and gender data and explicitly highlight “ethnic, racial, and gender data that illustrates the Inclusive Diversity story” for the Department, making them a primary official source for workforce race/ethnicity breakdowns at the department level [1]. Those archived CHCO reports are hosted on DHS.gov and include data tables and narrative context about representation across DHS components [1].
2. EEO Management Section: mandated EEO reporting and workforce tables
The DHS EEO Management Section prepares EEO technical guidance and “conducts workforce trend analysis, including Department-wide workforce data tables” and “prepares and submits mandated annual EEO reports to the U.S.”, which signals that the EEO product suite is another official channel where race and ethnicity breakdowns are compiled and reported [2]. Those EEO assets live on DHS’s EEO Management pages and are intended to support both internal oversight and external compliance obligations [2].
3. ICE-specific publications: what is present — and what is not clearly published
ICE maintains public-facing statistics and an annual-report landing page, but the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) statistics focus on operational metrics (removals, arrests, case processing) and note data practices such as quarterly updates and fiscal-year locking rather than personnel demographics [3]. ICE’s annual report portal exists as an official .gov hub for ICE reporting, but the available ICE operational pages reviewed do not present a readily discoverable, standalone ICE personnel race/ethnicity table in the same manner as DHS-wide Inclusive Diversity and EEO reports [4] [3]. The reporting reviewed therefore suggests that detailed race/ethnicity breakdowns for ICE personnel are more likely to be found embedded within DHS-level workforce products than on ICE operational statistics pages [1] [3].
4. Where to access these reports (practical navigation)
DHS Inclusive Diversity/CHCO reports can be accessed through DHS.gov’s publications or the CHCO/inclusive diversity archive where the FY18 example is posted (the FY18 PDF is archived on DHS.gov) [1]. The EEO Management Section’s pages on DHS.gov host EEO guidance and indicate that department-wide workforce tables and mandated EEO submissions are published via DHS portals [2]. ICE’s statistics and annual-report landing pages are hosted on ice.gov and contain operational statistics and links to ICE reporting products [3] [4].
5. Independent studies, third‑party data and interpretive context
Academic and media studies find patterns worth noting—several studies and news accounts report that Latinx employees are proportionally prominent within parts of DHS and ICE, and researchers have documented why Latinx officers join immigration agencies—findings that provide context but are not formal agency workforce tables [5] [6]. Commercial sites aggregate demographic snapshots (for example, Zippia’s ICE demographics) but these are not official DHS/ICE releases and should be treated as secondary estimates [7]. Readers should distinguish DHS’s formal Inclusive Diversity and EEO publications (official) from third-party summaries (non-official) when seeking authoritative race/ethnicity counts [1] [2] [7].
6. Caveats, transparency issues and incentives
DHS components prepare department-level EEO and Inclusive Diversity data, but the visibility of component‑level tables—how finely ICE-specific race/ethnicity breakouts are published—varies across portals and product types; the sources reviewed show clear DHS-level reporting but do not supply an unambiguous, standalone ICE personnel race/ethnicity table on ICE’s operational statistics pages [1] [3]. Stakeholders promoting DEI transparency and critics focused on enforcement outcomes each have incentives to frame available demographic data differently, so consulting the DHS CHCO/Inclusive Diversity and EEO Management pages gives the most direct official access while keeping in mind academic and media analyses for interpretive context [1] [2] [5].